On 02/19/2014 02:46 PM, Chris Cunnington wrote:
On Feb 19, 2014, at 3:37 PM, Ken Causey <ken@kencausey.com
<mailto:ken@kencausey.com>> wrote:
then you should receive an email with a link to authorize Frank.
Yea, I'm not being clear. I'm not trying to make Frank an administrator.
As an administrator I'm trying to look at the control panel and see if
Frank has been registered. Which he has not.
He tried to join the list and is expecting an email of confirmation,
which I understand he has not received.
I sent a message to the list, which has appeared in the archive page.
Sometimes the admin list appears after I give the password and sometimes
it doesn't.
All this is made more complicated as I don't know where in the admin
control panel I should look to see 1) if Frank's membership is awaiting
my approval, or 2) where I could change an setting to accept anybody who
wants to join the list ( so I don't have to approve their membership
personally).
Somewhere in there I was playing with box2, an mbox, and mutt.
I was sort of mumbling in text, really.
Chris
After your comment yesterday regarding having tried to join the box-admins list and this issue with Frank I began to wonder if there was a problem. So I tried joining the box-admins list with an alternate address as a test. Within seconds I got the email at my alternative address asking me to confirm that I wanted to join the list. Nothing more will happen until the URL in that email is used. If you visit that URL and confirm that you want to join that will then add you to a moderation queue (assuming the list does not allow open joining, I'm not sure how the webteam list is setup in this regard). At that point an email should be sent to all email addresses setup to receive moderation requests. I confirmed and after a few more seconds I received the email at my administrative email address to authorize the membership. That email contained a link much like the one I sent earlier, I visited it and found my membership request, all as expected. So it seems everything is working as expected. I think there must be some user confusion somewhere.
Ken